Actress Stephanie Reibel says she’s falling for a woman for the first time

If Stephanie Reibel looks familiar, you could have seen her in a variety of places. She’s had guest spots on Monk, Two and a Half Men, and she’s also one of the stars of a new bisexual web series, Rose by Any Other Name.

The series is from FenceSitterFilms, who was behind the Ally Sheedy/Ruby Dee film Steam, which also had a bisexual theme.

Reibel plays a lesbian (Rose) who decides to date a man, which makes friends upset and her family ecstatic. The actress recently in a recent interview told an interviewer she’s actually finding herself on the other side of things.

“I’m a straight woman who has found myself attracted for the first time to a woman in real life,” Ribel said. “I found myself attracted to a person, and I liked the fact that I can feel that way. It happens that I felt the love for a woman.”

Reibel said she doesn’t call herself bisexual now, as it’s not something she wants to put a label on:

For me, it’s not something I’m embarrassing of, but I don’t think I need to have a label for it. It’s OK if other people want to label it though. This is my first experience of it, so I don’t know what it is. If it makes them feel better in terms of labeling then that’s fine, I found myself attracted to a person.

And much like her character deals with on the web series, Reibel said she finds that the gay women are the ones who have the hardest time with sexual fluidity:

In the lesbian world it’s different reactions than the straight world to my situation. With women, it’s more emotional. My friends say it’s OK if I’m gay, but I say, ‘No, it’s just this one person’ and then they say, ‘It’s OK if you’re bi,’ and I say, ‘Well, if that makes you feel better,’ but really I don’t want to be labeled and don’t see the need for the label. I think it’s about the person.

Besides starring on the lesbian-themed web series, she is also going to be on our radar for her upcoming role in The Legend of Awesomest Maximus, alongside out bisexual actress Kristanna Loken.